• Space Tether Deployment Control for Nanosatellites 

  Murugathasan, Latheepan (2021-03-24)

  This thesis investigates the deployment control of space tethers for nanosatellites. More specifically, the problem space is reduced to the deployment of a tether that is housed and autonomously operated on a nanosatellite, ...

• The Politics of Consumer VR: Framing Contemporary Virtual Reality 

  Harley, Daniel Eric (2021-03-24)

  Positioning this dissertation as a technofeminist inquiry, I examine discursive tropes and ideologies that are constructed and/or mobilized by industry leaders from multinational corporations like Facebook and Google as ...

• Efficient Conservative Numerical methods for fluid flow problems with Interfaces 

  Kandel, Hom Nath (2021-03-08)

  The surface fluid flows coupled with porous media flows have many applications in science and engineering. The mathematical models are the coupled partial differential equations with interface conditions. It is of importance ...

• Mission Scheduling and Optimization Algortihm For Small Satellite Constellations 

  Lewis, Breannon Elizabeth (2021-03-08)

  CubeSats, a class of small satellite, offer a unique opportunity for training, technology demonstrations, Earth observation, and other space-based research. There has been a recent increase in their design and implementation ...

• The Effect of impaired Cyclooxygenase 2 activity on gene regulation in the developing mouse brain and the role of PGE2 in oxidative stress production in Differentiated Neuronal Cells 

  Udhesister, Sasha Tesna Persaud (2021-03-08)

  Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is a signaling molecule derived from the lipid membrane through the enzyme cyclooxygenase2 (COX-2). These studies aim to investigate how changes in COX-PGE2 signalling can influence mouse gene ...

• Metabolic Regulation by p107 (Rbl1) Influences Muscle Stem Cell Fate Decisions 

  Bhattacharya, Debasmita (2021-03-08)

  Skeletal muscle has a remarkable property of effective muscle fiber regeneration that maintain their normal physiology due to the presence of the adult muscle stem cells known as the satellite cells (SCs). The role of SCs ...

• The Lunar Polar Regions: Illumination Environment, Seasonal Water Cycle and Exospheric Volatile Delivery 

  Kloos, Jacob Lawrence (2021-03-08)

  Permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) at the lunar poles are of unique interest for science and exploration due to their low surface temperatures and potential for volatile sequestration. Spacecraft have indicated the presence ...

• A Natural Language Question Answering System for Exploring Online Conversations 

  Siddiqui, Nadia Ashfaq (2021-03-08)

  The proliferation of social media has resulted in the exponential growth of on- line conversations. Due to the volume and complexity of conversations, it is often extremely difficult to gain insights from such conversations. ...

• Development of New and Modification of Existing Methods for the Primary Screening of Aptamers and Antibodies by Means of Capillary Electrophoresis 

  Beloborodov, Stanislav (2021-03-08)

  Discovery of new drugs starts with screening a library of drug candidates (ligands) for their ability to bind targets. Such a screening can be conducted by a variety of analytical techniques; however, Capillary Electrophoresis ...

• Learned Exposure Selection for High Dynamic Range Image Synthesis 

  Segal, Shane Maxwell (2021-03-08)

  High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a photographic technique that captures a greater range of luminance than standard imaging techniques. Traditionally accomplished by specialized sensors, HDR images are regularly created ...

• Translating Mediation in Travel Writing: India in Pierre Sonnerat's Voyage aux Indes orientales et la Chine (1782) 

  Banerjee, Sanjukta (2021-03-08)

  In recent decades, a growing number of studies have focused on the parallels and interconnections between travel writing and translation to examine the ways in which both practices can be understood to represent the foreign, ...

• Understanding How Northern North American Freshwater Fishes are Responding to Rapid Environmental Change 

  Murdoch, Alyssa (2021-03-08)

  Many northern fishes are experiencing unprecedented environmental changes across their ranges. However, limited empirical evidence exists for understanding how these changes may combine and potentially interact to influence ...

• State and Capital Accumulation: Mining Industry in Indonesia 

  Sangadji, Arianto (2021-03-08)

  This dissertation examines the relations between state and capital accumulation in the mining industry in Indonesia. Karl Marx's theory of rent under capitalist mode of production (Marx, 1981), as social/class relations, ...

• Epistemological Justice in Strategic Challenges to Legislation under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 

  Phillips, Dana Erin (2021-03-08)

  This dissertation responds to two recent developments in the landscape of Canadian constitutional litigation. First, the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has invited a wave of strategic constitutional ...

• Dynamical Modeling and Data Clustering with Applications to Tick Population Dynamics and Finance 

  Sadiku, Jemisa (2021-03-08)

  Mathematical models are valuable tools that assist to control the spread of infected ticks and analyze tick-host dynamics. In this work, a compartmental model is created to study the dynamics of lone star ticks and ...

• Regional Economic Community Courts and the Advancement of Environmental Protection and Socio-economic Justice in Africa: Three Case Studies 

  Zarma, Rahina Bukar (2021-03-08)

  Focusing on three regional economic communities (REC) courts in Africa that nevertheless possess a human rights jurisdiction i.e. the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court), ...

• The Role Of Vab-3 in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Oxidative Stress Response 

  Yeo, Joon Yeob (2021-03-08)

  The oxidative stress response protects the cell by balancing the number of free radicals inside the cell. BRAP2 is a Ras effector with ubiquitin ligase activity and conserved in C. elegans. Our lab has previously shown ...

• Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrical Conductivity and Piezoresistivity of Conductive-Filler-Reinforced Polymer Nanocomposites and Foams 

  Hoang, Linh Trong (2021-03-08)

  Conductive-filler-reinforced polymer nanocomposite (CPN) has become increasingly popular because of the combined flexibility and low cost of the polymer paired with the enhanced electrical and mechanical properties of the ...

• Development of a Pokeweed Mosaic Virus Vector as a Molecular Tool to Study Host Protein Function in Phytolacca Americana 

  Klenov, Alexander (2021-03-08)

  American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is a plant known for both the synthesis of pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP) and the hyperaccumulation of heavy metals. Progress in understanding the factors behind viral resistance ...

• Enriching Word Representation Learning for Affect Detection and Affect-Aware Recommendations 

  Dehaki, Nastaran Babanejad (2021-03-08)

  The role of detecting affects from text is to detect affective states such as mood, sentiment and emotions from textual data. The main affective tasks, including sentiment analysis, emotion classification and sarcasm ...

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